How to Use big data in a Sentence

big data

noun
  • But the new space era has more to do with big data than big egos.
    — Ray Jayawardhana, WSJ, 14 July 2022
  • In this sense, big data technologies are not an end goal.
    — Adrian Stelmach, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • So, here are some of the big takeaways from Drizzy’s big data dump.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2024
  • That book is about a big data company that is out of control.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 22 May 2018
  • Among the themes that appeal to him are big data and machine learning.
    — Conrad De Aenlle, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • But please understand that this is about the right data, not big data.
    — Aarron Spinley, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • As things stand, most of it accrues to the big data distilleries.
    — The Economist, 7 July 2018
  • Using big data to put cops in the right place at the right time would help discourage crime.
    — David Uberti, WSJ, 8 July 2021
  • Big Tech needs a big amount of water to keep big servers in their big data centers cool.
    — David Lynch, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Still, Gu says, the researchers would like to see their new discs used in big data centers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2024
  • That’s when the advantages of big data are greatest.
    — Matthew W. Kreuter, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
  • That’s when the advantages of big data are greatest.
    — Matthew W. Kreuter, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Have you guys already gotten to the limits of insights from big data?
    — Teddy Amenabar, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • With big data to crunch and nowhere for miscreants to hide, perhaps top-down rule can at last be made to work.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • In this age of Moneyball and big data, why not look for patterns?
    — Adam Bryant, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Before the era of big data and text mining, what would evidence for such a claim even look like?
    — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2019
  • How well does this narrative stack up against the latest big data insights?
    — Diana Spehar, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • All of the ratings are via Nielsen’s big data plus panel ratings.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Now, Beim is on a quest to bring other women out of the dark by bringing big data to the womb.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 13 July 2018
  • Last year, the stock flatlined despite big data center order growth.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 1 July 2026
  • Careers in big data are booming and the pace isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon.
    — Virginia Tech, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2017
  • And big data could be processed in real time, avoiding the delays of Hadoop.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Video games might also have bigger data-usage spikes than movies or TV.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 12 June 2019
  • There’s too much big data to ignore women’s needs, and too much big data that shows how powerful women can be.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Klara and the Sun just accepts a world in which big data, algorithms, these things have become so much part of our lives.
    — Will Knight, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Along the way, he's pioneered new technologies in crowdsourcing and big data that have been used around the globe.
    — Bruna Bortolato, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The idea made a certain kind of sense — after all, if transformers could handle big data sets of words, why not pictures?
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The study is part of a wave of research using big data to answer long standing economic questions.
    — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 31 July 2020
  • Even so, the approach has proven capable of spotting a coronavirus needle in a haystack of big data.
    — Will Knight, Wired, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Not long ago, tech leaders were lying awake in the small hours of the night fretting about missing the big data revolution.
    — Maor Shlomo, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022

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